Solaris > GUI tools for Package management

Solaris comes with following two GUI tools: 1) admintool 2) prodreg 3) As pointed out by Yamaraj Solaris 10 (older version too) includes the SMC ~ Solaris Management Console. It can be run remotely over ssh forwarded port.

* How to use or start them? 1) You can start them from shell prompt as follows:# admintool & OR# prodreg &

Just follow on screen instructions, its really easy to use above GUI tools.

Although i have a big respect for Solaris, it has shitty package manager and it always had. I’m not talking about his default pkg utilities, i’m talking about GUI tools. You have ‘prodreg’ utility which is slow and non-intuitive, ‘admintool’ which they threw out from ver.10 and that’s it! The best package manager i ran into is ‘pkgutil’ although Solaris desperately lacks a good GUI frontend to it!